Title On sympathetic grounds : race, gender, and affective geographies in nineteenth-century North America / Naomi Greyser

Published New York : Oxford University Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource Contents Cover -- On Sympathetic Grounds -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Race, Gender, and Affective Geographies -- 1. A Paper Trail of Tears: Sentimental Sovereignty, Indian Removal, and Staking Claims to North America -- 2. The Ethical Bind of Sentimentalism: Rhetorical Intimacy in the Public Sphere and the Many Narratives of Sojourner Truth -- 3. Between Intimacy and Distance, a â#x80;#x9C;Neutral Territoryâ#x80;#x9D;: Sentimentalism, Writerâ#x80;#x99;s Block, and Untouchable Masculinity in The Scarlet Letter 4. Plotting Maidens and Traitors: Sympathy, Displacement, and Survivance in the New Southwest 5. â#x80;#x9C;Do I Not All Thy Sorrows Heed, And Bear Thee on My Heart?â#x80;#x9D;: Harriet E. Wilson and the Unsympathetic Materialism of White Northern Domesticity -- Epilogue: â#x80;#x9C;Spectres of Libertyâ#x80;#x9D; and the Archive: Sympathy Across Race and Gender, Time and Space -- Notes -- Bibliography Summary On Sympathetic Grounds lays out sympathy's vital place in shaping North America. Naomi Greyser intersperses theoretical reflection on the affective production of space with analysis of vales of tears, heart-rending oratory, and emplotment of narrative and land in work by Sojourner Truth, Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins, Nathaniel Hawthorne and others Notes Includes index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism Sympathy in literature. Sentimentalism in literature. Geography and literature -- United States Social problems in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. American literature Geography and literature Sentimentalism in literature Social problems in literature Sympathy in literature United States Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780190460990 0190460997 9780190461003 0190461004

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